About 18 months ago I purchased a Kingston 64GB value drive. When I purchased the drive it was very fast (reading), however from day one it always had a delayed write issue, that at it worst would lock totally my computer. This drive uses the JMicron controller and has no trim support.
To solve the write issue I moved anything that's normally written to HDD locations, temp files, outlook files, page, everything I could possible find was moved to HDD. However over time with numerous software updates it's inevitable there will be writes made.
For example, if Avast does an update at boot up, it locks the machine out for maybe another 2 mins. Many windows updates I have to leave the computer at night.
I have just over 1gb of space free on the drive. The following benchmark in CrystalDiskMark.
Seq Read 45.16 Write 0.679
512 Read 45.89 Write 0.952
4k Read 7.904 Write 0.091
4k QD32 8.116 Write 0.059
The only reason I keep the drive is the computer is working machine, and it's currently to much trouble to re-install windows. I would be happy booting even on a slow media drive compared to what I have now. I know the newer SSD's solve the issue's experienced with an early drive like this Kingston, however it will be a while before I look at SSD's again.
To solve the write issue I moved anything that's normally written to HDD locations, temp files, outlook files, page, everything I could possible find was moved to HDD. However over time with numerous software updates it's inevitable there will be writes made.
For example, if Avast does an update at boot up, it locks the machine out for maybe another 2 mins. Many windows updates I have to leave the computer at night.
I have just over 1gb of space free on the drive. The following benchmark in CrystalDiskMark.
Seq Read 45.16 Write 0.679
512 Read 45.89 Write 0.952
4k Read 7.904 Write 0.091
4k QD32 8.116 Write 0.059
The only reason I keep the drive is the computer is working machine, and it's currently to much trouble to re-install windows. I would be happy booting even on a slow media drive compared to what I have now. I know the newer SSD's solve the issue's experienced with an early drive like this Kingston, however it will be a while before I look at SSD's again.
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